Shafroth for Congress

I’m Will Shafroth and I’m running for Congress because the future’s too important to leave in the hands of politics as usual. It’s time for honest change in Washington.

We’ve got enormous challenges ahead: we must end the occupation of Iraq and bring our troops home as quickly and safely as possible; we must fix No Child Left Behind and provide every child in America a topnotch education; we must reform our health care system and create sustainable, well-paid jobs for ourselves and our children.

But when you’re in Congress, it's not just about how you vote, it's about how you lead, and what you lead on.

Global warming is our generation’s greatest challenge and we must meet this challenge with the same focus and intensity it took to land a man on the moon in the 60s. We must marshal the collective resources of our country and make halting global warming a top priority -- reflected in our daily lives and our national budget decisions.

The old style of politics –- of partisanship, special interests and money -– will not leave the world a better place for our children or their children. For their sake -- and our own, we must focus on solving problems, not pointing fingers.

If you are ready to start creating honest change instead of just talking about it, if you are ready to be a part of a national challenge as big as the moon shot, if you are ready to step up and claim what is yours to do to make this a better nation and a better world -- for our children and the world’s children -- then I ask you to join me.